Now we all know that everything that comes out of Trump’s mouth is a lie including the articles “A”, “An”, and “The”. The principle difference is that he’s openining it more. Shortly after inaguration it was a moderate 3 whoppers a day rising in 2018 to 5. Still, single digits. Over the last 2 weeks …
July 2018 archive
Jul 06 2018
The Breakfast Club (The Reason I’m Trav’lin’ On)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …
Jul 05 2018
What did you do in the Second Civil War?
What?! You didn’t hear?! The electric twitter machine has been all atwit. I, at my forward base- Stars Hollow North Lake, am in the heart of Red Cap country. Yesterday saw little MAGA activity as the apparent temperature was over 110. It was hard to distinguish the Red Caps at the beach because they had …
Jul 05 2018
Drip, Drip, Drip
Max Boot, while lesser known than George Will, is not suddenly a good person either. He is however, part of a string of prominent Conservatives who have abandoned the Republican Party and indeed are urging people to vote Democratic this fall. I left the Republican Party. Now I want Democrats to take over. by Max …
Jul 05 2018
Why The Trans-Pacific Partnership Was And Is A Bad Idea #127,256
Life with Trump can make almost anything else seem better, but before you get all weepy and nostalgic- Najib Razak, Malaysia’s Ex-Prime Minister, Is Arrested Amid Corruption Inquiry By Hannah Beech and Austin Ramzy, The New York Times July 3, 2018 Najib Razak, the former prime minister of Malaysia who was ousted in an election …
Jul 05 2018
The Breakfast Club (Sharing)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …
Jul 04 2018
Red Hen
(W)hat will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly – done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated – we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas’ new sedition law must be …
Jul 04 2018
Trump’s Salute to the Fourth of July
We all know that Donald Trump doesn’t read and is constantly surprised by historical events that everyone else knows. NBC’a “Late Night” host Seth Meyers outlined the history of America’s founding seen through Trump’s twisted mind.
Jul 04 2018
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 and the Construction of Whiteness August 20, 2014 What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass July 5, 1852 What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross …